On Wed, 2022-05-18 at 14:39 +0200, Petr Pisar wrote: > V Wed, May 18, 2022 at 08:09:06AM -0400, Stephen Snow napsal(a): > > Once upon a time On Tue, 2022-05-17 at 10:29 -0500, Chris Adams > > wrote:(snip unrelated) ... > > > In this thread it was claimed (I believe by a packager) that TCK > > > is > > > important to Java users, but I haven't seen any users say that. > > > > > > I'm not a Java user... I had never heard of TCK. I just went > > > searching, > > > and I don't see anything right off that shows that Fedora's > > > OpenJDK is > > > certified in any way. How would I even know? > > > > > Below is the link to the JCK/TCK and to be able to use the OpenJDK > > name you > > must sign the agreement and then you get access to the JCK which is > > the > > certification test API. Then you get to run certification tests for > > every > > build, if I read the agreement correctly. > > https://openjdk.java.net/groups/conformance/JckAccess/ > > > Is that (OpenJDK) still a free software? I mean the rights to modify > and > redistribute? If it isn't, is it suitable for Fedora? Or is too big > to fail > like the case of Firefox which we cannot call Firefox if we patch it. > Sorry my bad, the agreement is for being a contributor to the Oracle Open Community at https://oca.opensource.oracle.com/ not licensing for redistribution. I am not in any way giving legal advice here, just providing the info I could find. I think this is still a necessary if you want to seriously have any Java development stack available to Fedora Linux users though. Otherwise, it is totally doable in a self supported way by each dev, and I'm sure they all know how to but, I really like the fact that my distribution provides this now, it works. Stephen > -- Petr > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
